Drug Development Center

The government is challenging the slowing pharmaceutical research industry, by creating a drug development center of it's own. The new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences will work to attract drug company investments. Officials hope to reinvigorate the development of medicines and cures, for diseases like Parkinsons. Health and Human Services Secretary Kethleen Sebelius has outlined plans to open the new drug center by October. The New York Times reports, the project would bring more than $700 million dollars in research projects various institutes, together at the new center.